Events
529 BC - The international day of
Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as
Cyrus Cylinder. 437 -
Valentinian III, Western
Roman Emperor, marries
Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin
Theodosius II, Eastern
Roman Emperor in
Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the
House of Theodosius969 -
Byzantine troops occupy
Antioch Syria 1268 -
Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the
Hohenstaufen dynasty of
Kings of Germany and
Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion
Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by
Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile
Roman Catholic church.1390 - First trial for
witchcraft in
Paris.1422 -
Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father
Charles VI of France 1467 - Battle of Brusthem:
Charles the Bold defeats
Liege1618 -
English adventurer, writer, and
courtier Sir
Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against
James I of England.1658 -
Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)1665 -
Battle of Ambuila.
1675 -
Leibniz makes the first use of the
long s, ∫, for
integral.
1787 -
Mozart's
opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in
Prague.
1792 -
Mount Hood (
Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the
Willamette River.
1859 -
Spain declares war on
Morocco.
1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in
Geneva agree to form the
International Red Cross.1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under
Union General
Ulysses S. Grant ward off a
Confederate attack led by General
James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a
supply line into
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1881 -
The Judge (US magazine) first published.
1886 - The
ticker-tape parade is invented in
New York City when office workers spontaneously throw
ticker tape into the streets as the
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1901 - In
Amherst, Massachusetts nurse
Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of
Boston with an overdose of
morphine. 1901 -
Capital punishment:
Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President
William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1913 - Floods in
El Salvador kill thousands.
1921 - The
Link River Dam, a part of the
Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.1921 - Second trial of
Sacco and Vanzetti in USA.1921 - The
Harvard University football team loses to
Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1922 - The King of Italy,
Victor Emmanuel III, appoints
Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1923 -
Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the
Ottoman Empire.
1929 - The
New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the
Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday," ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the
Great Depression.
1942 -
Holocaust: In the
United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over
Nazi Germany's persecution of
Jews.
1944 -
Breda in the
Netherlands is liberated by
1st Polish Armoured Division1945 -
Getulio Vargas, president of
Brazil, resigns.
1948 -
Safsaf massacre1955 - The
Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a
World War II mine in the harbor at
Sevastopol.
1956 -
Suez Crisis begins:
Israel forces invade the
Sinai Peninsula and push
Egyptian forces back toward the
Suez Canal. 1956 - Tangier Protocol signed: The international city
Tangier is reintegrated into
Morocco.
1957 -
Israel's prime minister
David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a
hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the
Knesset.
1960 - In
Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name
Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1961 -
Syria exits from the
United Arab Republic.
1964 -
Tanganika and
Zanzibar join to form the
Republic of Tanzania.1964 - A collection of irreplaceable
gems, including the 565 carat (113 g)
Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves including
Jack Murphy from the
American Museum of Natural History in
New York City.
1967 - London criminal
Jack McVitie is murdered by the
Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
1969 - The first-ever
computer-to-computer link is established on
ARPANET, the precursor to the
Internet.
1971 -
Vietnam War:
Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in
Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January
1966).
1980 - Demonstration flight of a secretly modified
C-130 for an
Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at
Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field,
Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1983 - An earthquake in
Turkey kills 1,300.
1985 - Major General
Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in
Liberia.
1986 -
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the
M25 motorway.
1988 - Pakistan's
General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as
Governor of
Sindh, following the efforts by
President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.
1989 - After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the
New York City subway system since
1967.
1991 - The American
Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to
951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an
asteroid.
1992 - The
Food and Drug Administration approves
Depo Provera for use as a
contraceptive in the
United States.
1994 -
Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the
White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President
Bill Clinton).
1998 -
Apartheid: In
South Africa, the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. 1998 -
Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on
STS-95 with 77-year old
John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on
February 20,
1962.1998 - While en route from
Adana to
Ankara, a
Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a
Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to
Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the
Bulgarian capital of
Sofia to refuel. 1998 -
Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made
landfall in
Honduras.
2002 -
Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2004 - The
Arabic news network
Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a
video of
Osama bin Laden in which the
terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the
September 11, 2001 attacks and references the
2004 U.S. presidential election.2004 - In
Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first
European Constitution.
2005 -
29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.2005 -
Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from
Accra to
London.
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